Last week, the Census Bureau reported that an estimated 1 out of 7 Americans is now living in poverty, which is the same level we had in 1994. I started digging around the figures and found that the government definition of poverty for a two-adult, two child household (4 people) is $22,050 in annual income. How the hell can two working adults - or even one working adult - earn less than that in a year?! I mean, I have one relative who was pulling down roughly $20,000 to $30,000 a year in … [Read more...]
My Mom at the Billy Joel and Elton John Concert
February 28, 2010 By Leave a Comment
My mom wasn't allowed to go see Elton John as a kid. She came from a very fundamentalist household and seeing a "homosexual" wasn't something God's people did, or so they were told. So, she would wait up at night and watch him on television instead of going to bed. Once she was old enough, she had all of his albums and when he walks out on stage (she's seem him twice - once in 2005 and then again last night), she is able to get some serious volume to her screams of joy. To this day, she … [Read more...]
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